The big man has a living father

Chapter 122 Egyptian cotton!
In the mythological system of this era, or the current Confucian system, the Emperor of Heaven is Fuxi, the Emperor of Earth is Nuwa, their eldest son is Haotian God, the second son is Dijun, and the third son is Donghuang Taiyi. The emperor of the world is the youngest son of Heaven and Earth.

The tasks assigned to each family member are: the Emperor of Heaven and Earth created the human race to dominate the heaven and earth, and then they would create a baby at home, and the baby would be born and become the emperor of the world.

The eldest son, Haotian God, rules the divine world on behalf of his parents.

The second son, Di Jun, gave birth to ten suns, which were responsible for the movement of heaven and earth.

The third son, Donghuang Taiyi, together with his parents formed the three main gods of Tian, ​​Di and Taiyi, and dominated the universe.

This mythological system replaced the original concept of the goddess Tianyi and also linked together some ancient myths and legends.

Nasus calculated that if this was the case, our Pharaoh was the son of the Sun God, and the Sun God was the nephew of the current Han Emperor. Then wouldn’t our Pharaoh be the great-nephew of the Han Emperor?
Nasus thought, oh, your majesty, isn't this revenge for our Pharaoh's father? That Yi has rebelled, find him and give him a beating!

Then Nasus studied it in depth and realized that he was wrong.

Emperor Jun gave birth to ten suns, not ten sun gods.

Nasus looked up at the sun in the sky and fell into deep thought.

Can this be born?

Then after comparison, Nasus discovered that the sun god of Egypt and Greece was not the sun at all, but the person living in the Sun Palace.

In the past, the Egyptians and Greeks believed that the person in the Sun Palace was the sun god. They were really wrong!

The Sun Palace itself is a god! The person living in the Sun Palace is just a little Taoist boy!

Nasus calculated the time and came to the conclusion that perhaps all nine suns had died, and the great god Di Jun was too sad and didn't want to see these boys anymore, so he sent them to the small place of Egypt to be gods?
Now Nasus finally understood. It turns out that Egypt is just a marginal place, right?

Therefore, when Nasus was recording, he was very humble and used words that were as humble as possible.

He didn't know that his posture was like he was lying on the ground, and if he continued to be humble, he would sink into the soil.

But after putting these aside, Huo Hai still judged a lot of things from what he said.

First of all, Caesar should not have been born yet, so I don’t know if I can meet him.

Huo Hai didn’t know Caesar’s exact birth time, so he felt that he might never meet him.

Also, the strength of Egypt, Greece, and Carthage are not as strong as he imagined.

There may be two reasons. The first is that these countries were not that strong to begin with, and they were exaggerated to be powerful by later generations.

The second possibility is that these countries were very powerful in the more distant past, but have become very weak in this era.

It doesn't matter which one it is, it's good news anyway.

Huo Hai continued to look through and found that Nasus had written down some practical technologies that were popular there. Some of them were still of reference value to the Han people of this era, but now that the Han people had begun to industrialize, these things were no longer useful.

Although he was very sincere, he came half a year late.

The third is the seed atlas.

Nasus drew many shapes of plants, the functions and effects of their usable parts, as well as their appearance, shape and color.

In addition to these, some items whose seeds were collected were also specially marked.

【After one season of planting in Longxi, the seeds have been retrieved. 】

Huo Hai looked at this thing. Carrots? They have been planted for a season?

Look at the second page, onion.

Wow, we have carrots and onions, and with the cumin that is already here, there is no problem roasting a whole lamb.

Seeing the third page, Huo Hai's fingers froze, and then he was ecstatic: "Cotton?!"

Egyptian cotton is long-staple cotton!!! It turns out that long-staple cotton was once introduced to the Han Dynasty, but just like the big families in the south, they only planted and used it secretly, without reporting or spreading it.

This kind of slow infiltration can only spread food, nothing else can spread.

These bastards! This happened more than once or twice.

Nasus bowed his head and said, "Yes, sir. I heard that Her Royal Highness the Princess brought back cotton from the South, so I specially asked the sir to help me get a piece for comparison. The cotton fluff in Egypt is longer than the cotton in the south of the Han Dynasty."

Huo Hai took a deep breath. The industrial age was really coming.

"This thing hit the market for a quarter, and all the cotton with seeds was collected?"

Nasus: “On the way back, to be exact.”

Huo Hai was stunned for a moment and looked at Nasus: "On the way back?"

Nasus: “Because there are not many people that can be mobilized here, and General Zhao doesn’t have many people to borrow, it is more troublesome to collect them.”

"Several big families in Longxi have already worn a large portion of the cotton on their bodies. They directly stuffed the cotton into their clothes to make cotton-padded jackets."

"We sent a lot of wool from Chang'an for exchange, and then we collected the cotton, but it's still slow to transport it back."

"I guess we should be reaching Guanzhong soon."

Huo Hai: “Stop the car!”

Huangfu Hua lifted the door curtain and poked his head in: "Master!"

Huo Hai handed over a jade pendant and said, "Take the jade pendant and go to the military camp to find my eldest brother and ask him to send someone to escort the cotton back. Then go to the princess's mansion and ask the princess to send someone to accompany you."

Huangfu Hua: "Sir, this matter is so important, why don't you go in person?"

Huo Hai: "Many people in Chang'an City are watching us. Xiang Xu and I will continue to visit Master Tian as planned."

Now Huo Hai has come to the fore, but the people in the dark have not come out yet.

Huo Hai doesn’t know the attitude of the Longxi Li family yet.

If the Li family was willing to lead the charge, they would definitely realize something after hearing the news about cotton. After all, woolen clothes knitted with wool yarn have become popular throughout Chang'an. Even if Li Guang was slow to realize it, he would definitely realize that cotton could do the same thing.

But Li Guang certainly didn't know that short-staple cotton can only be woven by hand, while long-staple cotton can be woven by machine.

Under normal circumstances, knowing that the princess had already purchased a large amount of cotton in the south and transported it north, she would definitely not block the cotton from Longxi from arriving in Chang'an.

But the fear is that Li Guang would destroy the batch of cotton simply to express his attitude.

After all, if something from his territory fell into Huo Hai's hands, how could he lead the charge?

He had no idea that the Asan cotton secretly planted by everyone in the south was not as important as the small amount of cotton shipped from Longxi! Once destroyed, the textile industrialization of the Han Dynasty would stagnate for seven to twenty years!

In order to transport goods back from Egypt in West Asia on a large scale, we must at least take over the entire Western Regions, Daxia, and Parthia.

This is only possible if we march our army to Egypt.

This process would take at least three years even if firearms were invented.

To take over such a large area of ​​land, it is definitely more important to stabilize these lands first, sort out the local forces, and allow the nobles within the Han Dynasty to overflow than to transport goods. Building roads is impossible for the time being.

If this is the case, transportation will be very troublesome. In addition, the route will pass through many uninhabited areas, so it will take at least ten years to transport a large amount of goods back.

And this batch of cotton was brought by Nasus when he left Egypt.

Because a Qin person had been to Egypt, he knew it would get colder as he went east, so he brought cotton with him.

Later, cotton was made into cotton clothes.

And he filled it by hand, so he didn't pick the cotton seeds.

This cotton robe accompanied him through Parthia and to Daxia. To move forward, he had to pass through the Pamir Mountains, which was too cold, so Nasus first planted cotton and bought some warmer clothes, cotton coats, quilts, and carriage curtains before setting out eastward.

They came all the way to Longxi, where they sold their new cotton-padded clothes, carriage curtains for keeping warm, and seeds in their bedding at extremely high prices.

Because it was cultivated once and then planted again for one season in Longxi, it has actually gone through two successful planting seasons, so there are so many seeds.

If this process were to be replicated, one would first have to go to West Asia to obtain the seeds of the cotton cloth, then plant them in Daxia to prevent them from being destroyed, and then send them to the Han Dynasty. This process would be equivalent to a round trip to Nasus, which would be even more difficult.

Moreover, even if these original, unselected seeds are protected by velvet, the maximum germination time is only ten years.

Under normal circumstances, if it is peeled off, it can be preserved for two to three years at most.

This also makes it more difficult to replicate the process.

Therefore, at this stage, this is the only time Huo Hai can get cotton for large-scale planting!
Although I don’t know whether Li Guang will jump to the other side now.

But this matter cannot be taken lightly and must not go wrong.

Huo Hai whispered a few words to Huangfu Hua, who immediately tightened his scabbard: "Yes!"

After Huangfu Hua got off the car, Huo Hai's carriage left.

After the car drove away, Huangfu Hua, who pretended to drink water on the roadside, stopped a horse-drawn carriage and said, "I'll buy the horse."

The coachman looked at Huangfu Hua and shook his head: "I won't sell it. I still need to pull the cart."

Huangfu Hua couldn't possibly carry that much money, so he took out a jade pendant he bought for fun and said, "This piece of jade is worth ten horses. Besides, this is the business card of the lieutenant. With this business card, you can get a good horse at any carriage station in the mine."

The driver looked at the Pisces jade pendant in Huangfu Hua's other hand.

Huangfu Hua glared: "You are such a daredevil, this is a token from the princess to the lieutenant, you want it too?"

"What lieutenant?"

"Of course it's Lord Huo Haihuo, the Second Lieutenant of Chang'an."

When the driver heard Huo Hai's name, he immediately believed it and said, "I'll unload the horse for you right away."

After people in Chang'an City became rich, many of them moved further away.

When the range of activities becomes longer, the means of transportation needs to be upgraded.

Therefore, recently horse-drawn carts and human-drawn cart drivers have become popular in Chang'an City.

The coachman didn't expect that he made a fortune on his first day at work after getting a horse-drawn carriage and just as he went out!

Holding the jade pendant and business card, the driver returned home with a grin on his face.

His wife wondered, "Why are you back?"

The driver said: "Hey, the horses are sold, I'm bringing the cart back."

His wife was anxious: "What? I asked you to pull the cart, why did you sell the horse?!"

The driver told his wife what had just happened, and she exploded: "You've been fooled! Have you seen the lieutenant?"

"God damn it, how can I live!"

"We sold all our belongings to buy the carriage and horse!"

The good news is that the carriage is still there, and it is worth 40,000 coins, or 40 strings of cash!

The bad news is that horses are also worth a lot of money!

The driver was stunned for a moment and shook his head.

His wife was so anxious that she jumped up and down: "Who knows if this jade pendant is real? What if it's a business card with random handwriting? Can you read?"

The driver smiled bitterly: "You won't let me enroll in night school!"

The driver's wife pulled the driver and said, "Let's go out and ask if this jade pendant is real."

Soon, a high-end jade carving shop.

The shop owner saw the quality of the jade pendant and wanted to be greedy: "This jade pendant... well, it's just barely worth it."

The driver's wife said: "Look carefully, this is given by Lord Huo Hai, the Second Lieutenant of Chang'an, and it also has a business card."

The shop owner immediately put away his greed, because even if you make money, you have to live to spend it.

Everyone in the community knows that the current Chief Justice was beaten by Lieutenant Huo on a monthly basis, and the Chief Justice did not dare to fight back. If I try to covet the Lieutenant's things, I would be like an old man eating arsenic - am I too dissatisfied with my life?
"Mr. Huo gave it to me?! I took a closer look. Oops, I was mistaken. This jade pendant is worth 100,000 coins! It's enough to buy..."

The driver's wife: "Ten good horses?"

Shop owner: “Yes, yes!”

The driver's wife winked at him.

The driver said, "Would it be bad if we sold the jade pendant given by Lord Huo, my wife?"

The driver's wife: "Well, then don't sell it."

(End of this chapter)